ISC DHCP 4.x before 4.1-ESV-R12-P1, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3-P1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an invalid length field in a UDP IPv4 packet.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2015-8605 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue is not planned to be addressed in the dhcp packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, or 7, as the problem can not be triggered with those packages. For further technical details, refer to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1297314#c5
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Adjacent Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | dhcp | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | dhcp | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | dhcp | Will not fix |
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